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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Eclipse

1841

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Silver medal with obverse by C. Voigt and reverse by D. Bentelli

1842

Copper(?) or bronze(?) medal, commemorates convent

1842

Copper prize medal

1844

Bronze medal

1841

Bronze(?) medal, prize(?), instigated by Dr. Ferra

1844

Bronze medal commemorating Pierre Joseph Desault

1843

Circular silver medal

1844

Bronze medal to commemorate the founding of the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique

1841

Silver prize medal of the Hopitaux Civils de Lyon

1845

Silver medal inscribed in Hungarian

1844

Circular copper medal

1842

Bronze medal to commemorate the building of the Ecole Normale

1841